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English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41

  • Forum 2003
  • Number 1
  • Number 2
  • Number 3
  • Number 4

Number 1
Hear and read about the blues! This issue's feature article on the history and culture of blues music has accompanying sound files. Other topics include teaching the present perfect progressive, ready-to-use methodology materials, tutorials, and reflective journals.

Number 2
This issue is full of jazzy teaching ideas. A feature article on jazz is joined by articles on ESP, professional development, and the use of computers and web resources to enhance writing and speaking skills.

Number 3
This issue offers a wide range of topics to browse such as individualized learning and self-directed projects, adapting textbook activities, instructional writing tools, pragmatics. Classroom technique articles include "Counseling and Oral Communication," "Techniques for Students New to the Language Laboratory," and "Passion for Life!"

Number 4
This special issue, An Anthology for Teacher Trainers, contains articles published in English Teaching Forum between 1994 and 2000.

Number 1
Hear and read about the blues! This issue's feature article on the history and culture of blues music has accompanying sound files. Other topics include teaching the past perfect progressive, ready-to-use methodology materials, tutorials, and reflective journals.

Introduction: You Never Know What the Future Will Bring | Download as PDF (8K)
William P. Ancker

Alternatives to Current Pedagogy for Teaching the Present Perfect Progressive | Download as PDF (361K)
Marianne Celce-Murcia and Nina Yoshida 

Ready-to-use Methodology Materials: Breaking the Teacher-Fronted Cycle in the Classroom | Download as PDF (303K)
Maria Snarski and Andrea Billíková

Tutorials: A Way of Building Community in the Classroom | Download as PDF (239K)
Kirsten Schaetzel and Chan Ho

A Case Study of Reflective Journals in a University Level Writing Course in Hungary | Download as PDF (216K)
Holly Hansen-Thomas

Helping Professionals Prepare Presentations in English for International Conferences | Download as PDF (295K)
Emiliana Villata

Written Peer Response in L2 Writing | Download as PDF (278K)
Nat Bartels

Motivating Students by Modifying Evaluation Methods | Download as PDF (202K)
Mu Fengying

Teacher Resources | Download as PDF (197K)

Abstracts from Other Journals | Download as PDF (173K)

News & Notes | Download as PDF (157K)

The Red Hot Blues | Download as PDF (1.5MB) 
The Blues Singers | Download as PDF (664K)
Elements of the Blues | Download as PDF (323K)
The Blues: Grammar and Glossary | Download as PDF (180K)
Kent S. Markle

The Lighter Side | Download as PDF (222K)

Number 2
This issue is full of jazzy teaching ideas. A feature article on jazz is joined by articles on ESP, professional development, and the use of computers and web resources to enhance writing and speaking skills.

Introduction | Download as PDF (8K)
William P. Ancker

Options for Teacher Professional Development | Download as PDF (458K)
Gabriel H. Díaz-Maggioli

What Mary Shelley Never Wrote: Using Basic Computer Skills to Enhance Student Writing | Download as PDF (323K)
Maria Bortoluzzi 

What is English for Specific Purposes? | Download as PDF (302K)
Rebecca Smoak

Using Web Resources in a Public Speaking Class | Download as PDF (327K)
Shiao-Chuan Kung

Teaching Weak Forms | Download as PDF (153K)
Liang Wenxia

Language and Life Sciences: Mapping the Human Genome (Reprinted from Chapter 1 of the FORUM Electronic Journal Language and Life Sciences) | Download as PDF (604K)
Donna M. Brinton, Christine Holten, and Jodi L. Nooyen

All That Jazz | Download as PDF (2.08MB) 
The Cotton Club | Download as PDF (332K)
Great Nicknames of Jazz | Download as PDF (244K)
C. L. Smoak

The Lighter Side | Download as PDF (10K)

Number 3
This issue offers a wide range of topics to browse such as individualized learning and self-directed projects, adapting textbook activities, instructional writing tools, pragmatics. Classroom technique articles include "Counseling and Oral Communication," "Techniques for Students New to the Language Laboratory," and "Passion for Life!"

Introduction | Download as PDF (186K)

Noun Compounds and Compressed Definitions | Download as PDF (469K)
Peter Master

Individualizing Learning Through Self-Directed Projects | Download as PDF (319K)
Diane Malcolm and William Rindfleisch

Adapting Textbook Activities for Communicative Teaching and Cooperative Learning | Download as PDF (353K)
Anson Yang and Chan-Piu Cheung

English Prime as an Instructional Tool in Writing Classes | Download as PDF (391K)
John C. Herbert

The Mediational Role of Language Teachers in Sociocultural Theory | Download as PDF (377K)
Le Pham Hoai Huong

Teacher Resources | Download as PDF (159K)

Introduction to Teaching Pragmatics | Download as PDF (323K)
(Reprinted from the online book Teaching Pragmatics, published by the Office of English Language Programs)
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Rebecca Mahan-Taylor

Spot the Problem! | Download as PDF (159K)
(reprinted from Teaching Pragmatics)
Melinda Edwards

Appropriateness in Terms of Address | Download as PDF (183K)
(reprinted from Teaching Pragmatics)
Miyuki Takenoya

Classroom Techniques:
- Counseling and Oral Communication
 | Download as PDF (192K)
T. Murugavel

- Techniques for Students New to the Language Lab | Download as PDF (192K)
Yi Yi Maw

- Passion for Life! | Download as PDF (212K)
Galina Ceban

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Number 4
This special issue, An Anthology for Teacher Trainers, contains articles published in English Teaching Forum between 1994 and 2000.

Editor's Note | Download as PDF (373K)
William P. Ancker

Methodology in the New Millennium | Download as PDF (245K)
Ted Rodgers

Reflective Teaching: The Principles and Practices | Download as PDF (103K)
Thomas Farrell

Teacher Supervision: Moving Towards an Interactive Approach | Download as PDF (137K)
Fredricka Stoller

Lesson Observation: The Key to Teacher Development | Download as PDF (100K)
Thomas Tenjoh-Okwen

Using L1 in the L2 Classroom | Download as PDF (98K)
C. William Schweers, Jr.

Observation Web: A Reflection Technique for Observation | Download as PDF (92K)
Radislav Millrood

Language Teacher Preparation in Developing Countries: Structuring Preservice Teacher Training Programmes | Download as PDF (73K)
David Cross

Microteaching | Download as PDF (109K)
Essam Hanna Wahba

Teaching Vocabulary to English Teacher Trainees | Download as PDF (83K)
Leslie Cohen

Effective Questions | Download as PDF (80K)
M. R. Talebinezahd

Changing Homework Habits: Rethinking Attitudes | Download as PDF (89K)
Liliana Tavares

Building a Class Library Using Local Folktales | Download as PDF (85K)
Grace J. Malgwi

Setting Up and Editing an "In-House" Journal | Download as PDF (88K)
Virginia C. Bunker

Using English Teaching Forum in Teacher Development | Download as PDF (72K)
Krzysztov Strzemeski, Gail Brown, Maria Snarski

A Thought Provoking Warm Up Activity for Teacher Training | Download as PDF (86K)
Annie Polatsek

On Teaching and Learning | Download as PDF (58K)/p>

Listen to the Blues!

  • "Take a Good Look at Me" | Download as MP3 (1.92MB) **
  • "Twelve-Bar Blues" | Download as MP3 (1.44MB) **
  • "Playing Techniques" | Download as MP3 (924K) **
  • "Evolution of the Blues" | Download as MP3 (916K) **
  • Transcripts of Sound Files (10K) *

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